Written questions

2,688 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contraceptives: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she plans to take to maintain the right of women to access high quality reproductive healthcare, including the full range of contraceptive methods.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contraceptives: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure young people have access to high quality reproductive healthcare, including the full range of contraceptive methods.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Abortion: Telemedicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure young people (a) can access and (b) retain the legal right to consent to early medical abortion via the telemedicine pathway.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of (a) increasing ambulance delays and (b) the occupation of hospital beds by patients who are medically fit to leave but wh

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Nuclear Power and Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the potential benefits for energy security of implementing an accelerated transition to UK-grown renewable and nuclear power sources.

10 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Abortion

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will carry out a review of the criminal sanctions associated with abortion.

10 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Abortion: Protest

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to prevent protests outside healthcare facilities providing abortion care in England.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Abortion: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what priorities she has set for improving access to abortion care for women and girls.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Females: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Women's Health Strategy for England published on 30 August 2022, which said that women meet barriers in accessing the contraceptive method of their choice due to siloed commis

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the statement in the Women's Health Strategy published on 30 August 2022, when she plans to be publish her plan for sexual and reproductive health.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Genito-urinary Medicine: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to implement the Hatfield Vision proposals announced by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare that by 2030, reproductive health inequalities will have sig

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS and Care Workers: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) NHS and (b) social care staff have died from covid-19 since 9 March 2020.

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Kingston upon Hull

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase NHS staffing levels in hospitals in Hull.

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Accident and Emergency Departments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce Accident & Emergency waiting times at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Results of the Women’s Health, let’s talk about it survey and the Women's Health Strategy for England, published on 20 July 2022, what steps he plans to take as part of that s

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to develop a long-term workforce strategy for the NHS which will support the recruitment and retention of midwives.

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the evidence provided to the Women's Health Strategy for England on endometriosis diagnosis and treatment, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a change in the s

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epidermolysis Bullosa: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will provide £50 million of funding to enable DEBRA to increase research into gene, protein, and cell therapies which offer the potential to (a) correct the molecular and clinical

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epidermolysis Bullosa: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will provide £10 million of funding to support DEBRA's drug repurposing programme and to conduct clinical trials with patients affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa to be treated with

2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to data produced by the ONS, Socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality in England: 2019, released on 11 March 2021, what steps the Government is taking to tackle regional dis

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Buildings: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will increase support for (a) the ventilation and insulation of buildings and (b) other climate change mitigation measures following the summer 2022 heatwave.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener, published in October 2022 and the High Court judgment on the strategy of 18 July 2022, for what reason the Government

14 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the blockade of Gaza on children’s ability to access vital health and education services in that country.

14 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made representations to her Israeli counterpart on steps toward lifting the 15-year blockade of Gaza.

14 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for policies of Save the Children’s report entitled Trapped: The impact of 15 years of blockade on the mental health of Gaza’

14 Jul 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to improve child maintenance services for parents attempting to access unpaid maintenance payments from parents on with high income.

14 Jul 2022 · Home Office

Immigration: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to waive fees for immigration applications for Ukrainian nationals who have leave to remain in the UK.

13 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Private Equity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of private equity on the quality of care delivered by the social care sector.

12 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Defence

NATO

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure the UK’s obligations to NATO are fulfilled.

12 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of Armed Forces personnel.

Source: official written-questions record.